Inspiration, ideas and information to help women build public speaking content, confidence and credibility. Denise Graveline is a Washington, DC-based speaker coach who has coached nearly 200 TEDMED and TEDx speakers--including one of 2016's most popular TED talks. She also has prepared speakers for presentations, testimony, and keynotes. She offers 1:1 coaching and group workshops in public speaking, presentation and media interview skills to both men and women.

It's another example of a practical response to the suggestion that "we can't find any qualified women" to speak on panels, part of the perennial issue of getting women on the program that's often just an excuse to exclude women speakers. (And it's a problem even in female-dominated professions.) Lists like this one serve an important purpose--as a resource and as a stopgap against the excuse that "we can't find any qualified women" to be on the program.